just like watching escalators

last week, we went and saw "horton hears a who". "the grinch" was terrible and "cat in the hat" was terrible. but this one… is pretty darn good. (maybe it has something to do with being animated as opposed to the other two, which were live action)

it’s the only seuss adaptation so far that i think really got seuss right. but enough about the movie. it’s absurd. it’s nonsense. it’s absurd nonsense with morals. it’s for kids and kids at heart (and kids at mind i suppose). it’s seuss. that’s all anyone should know.

ever since i saw that, i’ve had this itch that i just had to scratch. i wanted to read seuss.

aside from all the weird absurdities stimulating my brain, reading/listening to the steady rhymes sort of relaxes me. it’s like standing in a mall and just starting at an escalator (a moving one of course). mau always points that out. like when she has to go to the ladies’ room or i’m just waiting for her or we just choose to do nothing at all… you can bet on it that i’ll be caught standing somewhere just staring at the escalator. i find it relaxing. weird ba? ^_^

i haven’t found anything on the net yet that has any of dr seuss’ material. T_T

wala pa naman yata ako sa point na bibili ako ng libro. i’ll save that for when i have kids. i’ll provide the seuss. mau will provide the disney. hehe. (but imho, seuss kicks walt’s ass ^_^) it’s quite appropriate, really. i’m more of the out-of-whack type like seuss and mau’s more the classic-fantastical-kiddie-fun type like disney.

i went to wikiquote and looked up dr seuss and found some very very nice quotables from the man himself that are worth sharing (the first one is my favorite):

"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities."

"Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack."

 i just can’t help myself. I went through the whole seuss entry on wikiquote. like i said. it’s relaxing. ^___^ just like watching escalators. hehehe.

and before i forget and run out of time
i leave you with one good quoted rhyme
(hey, what’s a seuss entry without writing your own line? =p) 

this is from one of seuss’ last published works, "Oh, the Places You’ll Go!". It concerns life and its challenges and is supposedly a popular gift for students graduating from high school and college. If I can find and get my hands on a copy of this, I suppose it’ll pass as a graduation gift for my bro who’s graduating from HS this Sunday.

    * You have brains in your head.
      You have feet in your shoes.
      You can steer yourself
      any direction you choose.
      You’re on your own.
      And you know what you know.
      And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.

    * You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed.
      You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead.
      Wherever you fly, you’ll be the best of the best.
      Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

    * I’m sorry to say so
      But, sadly it’s true
      That bang-ups and hang-ups
      Can happen to you.

    * On an on we will hike, And I know we’ll hike far
      and face up to our problems whatever they are.

      We’ll get mixed up of course, as we already know.
      We’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as we go.

      Let’s be sure when we step.
      Step with care and great tact
      And remember that Life’s a great balancing act.

      Let’s never forget to be dexterous and deft.
      And never mix up our right foot with our left.

    * Will you succeed?
      Yes you will indeed!
      (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)